FICTION.PL Competition Set II

6.12.2025, 21:00
Centrum im. Ludwika Zamenhofa, 19 Warszawska St
admission free

Jak się odkochać
How to fall out of love
director: Varvara Zarytska
director of photography: Stanisław Skonieczny
Poland 2025, 15’50”

The protagonist is making a film – a love story about her friend Agata’s relationship – and searching for an answer to the question: what is love? The relationship falls apart, but the filming continues. The director stays with Agata, now desperate and overwhelmed by memories. If memory is a creation, then what is film?

Chłodno
Coldness
director: Lena Krystyna Jaworska
director of photography: Daniel Le Hai
music: Mikołaj Sosnowski
Poland 2024, 30’

Podlasie, on the Polish-Belarusian border. Paweł struggles to balance his job at a frozen food factory with caring for his dying father, for whom there is no room in a hospice. After being reprimanded by social services, he notices a Syrian migrant, Ali, falling under his car. He strikes a risky deal with him – he will hide Ali from the border guards and help him get to Germany if Ali helps him care for his father.

Tama
The Dam
director: Giovanni Pierangeli
director of photography: Kacper Gawron
music: Paulina Derska
Poland 2024, 26’44”

Michał wants to forget about the past, marked by the disappearance of his son, and start a new chapter in his life. An unexpected message from a mysterious witness to an event that happened years ago, thwarts his plans and forces him to once again confront his memories, which turns out to be more difficult than he expected.

Asomia
director: Wojtek Węglarz
director of photography: Wojtek Węglarz
music: Oskar Światowski, Inez Sperling, Damian Pielka, Stefan Kokiziuk
Poland 2025, 17’

Szczepan is desperate enough to undergo experimental therapy at an insomnia treatment clinic, where he endures strict discipline and fierce rivalry.

Zza szyby podglądam jak umiera sarna, młoda
Dying of the young deer
director: Angelika Cygal
director of photography: Szczepan Lewandowski
music: Artur Walaszczyk
Poland 2024, 16’

Helka wanders through the village towards her new home.